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Jacob's
Fear of Esau |
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Genesis 32:1
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Now as Jacob went on his way, the angels of
God met him. |
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Genesis 32:2
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Jacob said when he saw them, "This is God's
camp." So he named that place Mahanaim. |
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Genesis 32:3
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Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his
brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. |
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Genesis 32:4
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He also commanded them saying, "Thus you shall
say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban,
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Genesis 32:5
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I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male
and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in
your sight."'" |
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Genesis 32:6
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The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We
came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four
hundred men are with him." |
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Genesis 32:7
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed;
and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and
the camels, into two companies; |
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Genesis 32:8
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for he said, "If Esau comes to the one company
and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape." |
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Genesis 32:9
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Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and
God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country and to
your relatives, and I will prosper you,' |
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Genesis 32:10
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I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and
of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff
only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies. |
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Genesis 32:11
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"Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother,
from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the
mothers with the children. |
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Genesis 32:12
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"For You said, 'I will surely prosper you and
make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.'" |
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Genesis 32:13
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So he spent the night there. Then he selected
from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau: |
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Genesis 32:14
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two hundred female goats and twenty male goats,
two hundred ewes and twenty rams, |
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Genesis 32:15
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thirty milking camels and their colts, forty
cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. |
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Genesis 32:16
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He delivered them into the hand of his servants,
every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a
space between droves." |
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Genesis 32:17
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He commanded the one in front, saying, "When
my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where
are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?' |
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Genesis 32:18
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then you shall say, `These belong to your servant
Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.'"
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Genesis 32:19
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Then he commanded also the second and the third,
and all those who followed the droves, saying, "After this manner you shall speak
to Esau when you find him; |
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Genesis 32:20
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and you shall say, 'Behold, your servant Jacob
also is behind us.'" For he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes
before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me." |
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Genesis 32:21
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So the present passed on before him, while he
himself spent that night in the camp. |
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Genesis 32:22
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Now he arose that same night and took his two
wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
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Genesis 32:23
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He took them and sent them across the stream.
And he sent across whatever he had. |
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Jacob
Wrestles |
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Genesis 32:24
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Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled
with him until daybreak. |
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Genesis 32:25
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When he saw that he had not prevailed against
him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated
while he wrestled with him. |
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Genesis 32:26
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Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking."
But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." |
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Genesis 32:27
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So he said to him, "What is your name?" And
he said, "Jacob." |
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Genesis 32:28
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He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob,
but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed." |
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Genesis 32:29
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Then Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell
me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And he blessed him
there. |
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Genesis 32:30
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So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said,
"I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved." |
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Genesis 32:31
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Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed
over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh. |
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Genesis 32:32
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Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do
not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched
the socket of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip. |
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